Definition of explorer Explorer

/ɪksplɔˈɹɚ/ - [iksplorer] - Ex•plor•er

We found 11 definitions of explorer from 7 different sources.

What does explorer mean?

WordNet

Noun Plural: explorers
explorer - someone who travels into little known regions (especially for some scientific purpose)
		adventurer
		mortal, somebody, someone, individual, person, soul a single organism
		conquistador an adventurer (especially one who led the Spanish conquest of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century)
		frogman, underwater diver, diver someone who dives (into water)
		navigator in earlier times, a person who explored by ship
		potholer, spelaeologist, speleologist, spelunker a person who explores caves
explorer - a commercial browser
		Internet Explorer, Explorer, IE

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Wiktionary

explorer (Noun)
One who explores something.
explorer (Noun)
A person who by means of travel notably an expedition searches out new information.
explorer (Noun)
Any of various hand tool s, with sharp points, used in dentistry.
explorer (Noun)
A visual representation of a file system etc. through which the user can navigate.

Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘

explorer (n.)
One who explores; also, an apparatus with which one explores, as a diving bell.

OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω

explorer
A person who by means of travel searches out new information.

Electrical DictionaryThe Standard Electrical Dictionary 💡

explorer
A coil, similar to a magnetizing coil (see Coil, Magnetizing), used for investigating the electro-magnetic circuit and for similar purposes. If placed around an electro-magnet and connected with a galvanometer, it will produce a deflection, owing to a momentary induced current, upon any change in the magnet, such as removing or replacing the armature. It is useful in determining the leakage of lines of force and for general investigations of that nature. It is often called an exploring coil. Hughes' Induction Balance (see Induction Balance, Hughes') is sometimes called a Magnetic Explorer. The exploring coil may be put in circuit with a galvanometer for quantitative measurements or with a telephone for qualitative ones.
Extension Bell Call. A system of relay connection, q. v., by which a bell is made to continue ringing after the current has ceased coming over the main line. It is designed to prolong the alarm given by a magneto call bell, q. v., which latter only rings as long as the magneto handle is turned. A vibrating electric bell (see Bell, Electric,) is connected in circuit with a local battery and a switch normally open, but so constructed as to close the circuit when a current is passed and continue to do so indefinitely. The distant circuit is connected to this switch. When the magneto is worked it acts upon the switch, closes the local battery circuit and leaves it closed, while the bell goes on ringing until the battery is exhausted or the switch is opened by hand.

Wikipedia

An Explorer is a person who explores, or looks for something new. Most explorers are famous for finding new places or going to places that people did not know much about, such as Christopher Columbus, who discovered the Americas, or Marco Polo, who traveled to China and amazed many people with his stories of it.